Any weird family foods?

Question

Do you have any weird family foods that have a story behind them?

My grandfather used to put Peanut Butter on his hotdogs because he once saw a man do it in a resaurant.

It turns out the" peanut butter " was brown mustard!

He continued to eat it with peanut butter until he died=/

Answer 1

My great-grandmother's homemade horseraddish, according to my dad. She passed away before I ever had a chance to meet her, but he said that she spoke maybe 10 words of English(she was Polish). She grew and canned her own horseraddish and would always make him taste it. Brought tears to his eyes every single time, and he has never found anything hotter than my great-grandmother's horseraddish.

Answer 2

Nope - I'm sure you aren't the only ones. My mother's parents were Hungarian and along with a lot of classic Hungarian dishes we ate these two utterly delicious noodle dishes that I never see recipes for... Hungarian Noodles and Cabbage Thinly slice up a head of cabbage and cook it in lots of butter with a little salt and pepper in a frying pan. Add a teaspoon or two of sugar to help it caramelize. Cook it a LONG time (I can cook a regular size head of cabbage down to a ball about the size of my fist!) - at least a half hour, up to an hour or so. Boil up EGG noodles. Drain them, throw them back in the pot, throw the cooked cabbage in with more butter. The more butter the better ;-) Serve it up. The cabbage becomes almost sweet and won't taste like anything you've had before. Hungarian Noodles with Walnuts and Sugar Grind up walnuts in a mouli grinder or in the food processor (don't make nut butter). Mix with sugar (maybe 1 part sugar to 3 parts nuts). Boil up some egg noodles. Drain and mix with lots of butter (there's that butter again). Top with the nut sugar mixture. -------------------------------- I realize the measurements are imprecise, but these were never written down anywhere and I just adjust as I go along.

Answer 3

Well, I don't BUT my boyfriend's family and ALTO of them.

One of them I remember the most is Cottage Cheese Waffles.

A little odd I must say. How to make them is do the normal routine on how you make regular waffles, but hold back on the main waffle mix and add cottage cheese.

He claims he's Italian and Cuban, so I don't know where this recipe came from, but all I know is it came from his great or great-great grandmother when she came to America.

Cottage Cheese Waffles, he wants me to try it some day. I think I'll have plans that day. ha ha

Answer 4

CREAMED SPINACH - YUCK, my mom and grandma used to make that stuff and god it tasted awful and I mean awful, I would have to eat a so called tablespoon every time they fixed and I would gag all the way through even gulping down my milk didn't help the nasty taste, If I didn't eat it I didn't get up from the table. To this day my mom still makes it and if I smell it in her house I leave cuz I will puke. The best part now is I'm 41 and I DON'T HAVE TO EAT IT ANYMORE!!!!!!

Answer 5

Cabbage cores. When I was little, by mom would take the remains of a cabbage, slice off all the leaves on the core until it was smooth and give it to us kids as a treat.

Answer 6

SAUCERKRAT SOUP MAY BE SPELLED WRONG!!! MY GRANDMOTHER STARTED MAKNG IT DURING THE DEPRESSION--BUT EVERYONE REALLY LIKED IT SO IT BECAME A FAMILY CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!